Re: [up-discuss] Running Spyce on shared hosting

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:41:03 -0800 (PST), "Ryan Bowman"
<ryanlbowman-/[email protected]> said:
> I have signed up for a shared hosting service that allows python to be
> executed
> as cgi.  I can run .py files and they'll be executed, so I can visit a
> file in
> a browser, say hello.py
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> print '<h1>Hello</h1>'
> 
> and get <h1>Hello</h1> output to the browser.  That's nice, but I want to
> use
> Spyce.
> 
> Following the 'Alternate CGI Config' instructions at
> http://spyce.sourceforge.net/docs/doc-conf_source.html I'm trying to run
> a
> simple test, the one on spyce's home page, hello.spy:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python /home/ryanlb/spyce/run_spyceCGI.py
> <spy:parent title="Hello" />
> [[ import spyce ]]
> 
> Hello from Spyce version 
> [[= spyce.__version__ ]]!
> 
> With the following directory structure:
> ~/spyce/
> ~/ryanlb.com/
> 
> If I put hello.spy in ryanlb.com and visit it with a browser it displays
> code
> rather than running it.
> If I run ./hello.spy from the command line it runs spyce and dumps the
> generated html code to the console, as expected.
> So, am I doing something wrong, or is Dreamhost doing something so I
> can't run
> spyce via cgi?

Typically shared hosts configure CGI to be allowed to run from a
specific directory, e.g., ~/cgi-bin.  That is probably what is going on
here.

-Jonathan
-- 
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